Sk-etchbook

I just had a play with the new Wolfram Alpha search engine. I can definitely see how it could be a very useful tool. It's in it's early stages so it doesn't give you much data but potentially it could be incredibly time-saving for professionals, researchers and students predominantly. I don't really get why people always have to hype things as the new or the replacement of? TV didn't replace radio and the intent didn't replace TV. You would think people would have learnt by now things can coexist. Wolfram Alpha meets a completely separate need from Google it provides data, statistics and facts opposed to Google's provision of relevance. Google is very bad at this, I've tried searching for charts and stats before and got a load of rubbish. As it stands it's not good enough to succeed, the data feeds are too limited yet the idea is solid and if the effort is put into the project it could quite easily become a common business tool.

"British search engine 'could rival Google'"

The next Google

Oh and check out Google's next big thing. Pretty impressive as a bystander, very impressive as a tech geek.